I like to think of your list as the movements that resolve tension (in the order you wrote it, in descending order of strength), and the opposite direction as adding tension, once again in descending order of strength. ANY root movement is possible; it's only a question of context, style, and desired effect.
Christopher At 2:27 PM -0500 5/31/02, Jamin Hoffman wrote: >Dear all - > >Pardon me for asking what should be a simple question - BUT: > >One of my theory teachers once told me the three most common intervals of >root movement in chord progressions. I know I ought to be able to figure >this out through reasoning and other thought processes, but I think it's one >of those things I have thought about so much that I have confused myself. > >Are they: > >1. Down by fifths, >2. Up by seconds, and >3. Down by thirds (in that order)? > >What confuses me is the Pachelbel Canon, which he used as an example, but it >goes down by fourths, not fifths - but the dominant/tonic (down by fifths) >is generally recognized as the strongest root movement, right? [You can see >how I have talked myself out of what should be a simple line of reasoning.] > >BTW - The reason I started thinking about this again (recently) is a recent >story on NPR about a woman who wrote a song that has become embedded in the >folk song culture - and one of the reasons they gave for its success was its >root movement, which parallels the Pachelbel Canon. > >Thanks - > >Jamin Hoffman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
